Portland & Seattle Railway Co. v. Ladd
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Ska-mania county, McCredie, J., entered August 20, 1906, on the verdict of a jury awarding damages in a condemnation proceeding.
1Opinion of the CourtMount, J.
This appeal is prosecuted from a judgment based upon an award for damáges in condemnation. The errors assigned will be considered and decided in the order assigned in appellants’ brief. The facts necessary to an understanding of the points made will be stated as each point is considered.
It is first argued that the court erred in denying a motion for a continuance. The legal title of the land sought to be appropriated stood in the name of Charles E. Ladd and wife, but the equitable title was in Ladd and wife and the Columbia Contract Company, a corporation, in the proportion of one-third in…
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